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The hauntingly beautiful epistolary novel from “a glowing light of modern Italian literature” (New York Times Book Review)


Longlisted for the PEN Translation Award

At the heart of Happiness, as Such is an absence—an abyss that pulls everyone to its brink—created by a family’s only son, Michele, who has fled from Italy to England to escape the dangers and threats of his radical political ties. This novel is part epistolary: his mother writes letters to him, nagging him; his sister Angelica wr...